In his 1996 collection of essays on the American poet and artist E. E.Cummings, entitled (Re)valuing Cummings: Further Essays on the Poet,1962-1993, Norman Friedman refers the reader to the introduction of GuyRotella's E. E. Cummings: A Reference Guide (1979). He argues that certainareas of work are still left unexplored by Cummings criticism. Rotella's"useful list of things remaining to be done" (Friedman 1996, 101) inFriedman's reading includes the following: "a selective edition of the bestpoems, a complete collection of letters, a concordance, a study of Cummings'use of irony and ambivalence, of his personal sign system, of his treatment ofdeath, his use of the city, his alleged solipsism, and his use of nature"(Ibid). In the years that have passed since Rotella's 1979 statement of gapsin Cummings criticism, some – indeed very important – work hasemerged. Aninconclusive, introductory list might contain Martin Heusser's analysis ofsome of the cardinal signs in Cummings' sign system, as well as his tacklingwith the issue of death, both in his I Am My Writing: The Poetry of E. E.Cummings (1997); Teresa Gonzalez Minguez's essay on his city, and TaimiOlsen's book that dealt with the architectural in his works; and some essaysby Michael Webster, Milton A. Cohen and other contributors to Spring: TheJournal of the E. E. Cummings Society on his irony, solipsism and his use ofnature.

However important these works might be, further work in these fields remainsto be done. The aim of this volume, to be published by Cambridge ScholarsPress, is thus to collect new essays that explore the mentioned topics, aswell as other approaches that may be equally intriguing and important.

Although it is, indeed, our aim to encourage multidisciplinarity and a healthysense of eclecticism in approach, it nevertheless seems important to introducea certain guiding principle in organizing the upcoming volume. All essaysshould fall under the general label "crossing borders." Therefore, proposedareas include, but are not limited to:- adaptation (crossing the borders of genres and media: Cummings and film,e.g. George Lucas' 1967 short "anyone lived in a pretty how town"; settingCummings to music, e.g. the work of Björk, Peter Graham, Eric Whitacre,Marshall Bialosky, Steve Heitzeg, Vincent Persichetti, Jere Hutcheson, andothers),- translation and reception (Cummings' reception and influence in non-Englishspeaking countries, e.g. Cummings and the 1956 Revolution in Hungary, Cummingsand the poetry of Dezso Tandori; the translatability of Cummings),- crossing the boundaries of sacred and profane,- Cummings' use of intermediality,- problematizing the self and the other,- recharting the boundaries of the body,- Cummings across movements of his and our time (Bauhaus, Post-Modernism,Absurd),- redrawing the borders between public and personal,- recharting space.

Please submit the title and a 350-word abstract of the proposed paper, and aCV by September 30, 2006 to Zeno Vernyik. Digital submissions through e-mailin OpenDocument (.odt), Rich Text (.rtf) or Microsoft Word (.doc) format arepreferred, however, traditional mail submissions are also accepted. In thelatter case, please enclose the files on a CD with the hard copy of the text.Please do not send floppies. The minimum length for final essays is 2000words, while the maximum is 10,000 words. Further details about the requiredstyle are sent to authors of accepted proposals.

New contact information for submission and inquiries:e-mail: 195584_at_mail.muni.cz